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** Once upon a time . . . when the youth exchanges between teenagers from Bristol and Hannover were regular events, groups from the two cities decided they enjoyed the adventure so much they should repeat it. It took 50 years to organise but the reunion was finally shared and enjoyed immensely over the weekend of July 17-19 when eight members the Hannover Class of ’65 and ’66 flew to Bristol. Waiting to meet and greet them were 13 of their old friends from Bristol for a 50th anniversary reunion which owed an enormous amount to some remarkable police work in both sides of the reunion. Two...

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Spring and early summer has been a busy time for events in Bristol: Twenty or so members gathered for a delicious meal at the Town House bar and restaurant in Whiteladies Road. We were ensconced in a comfortable private room upstairs and could do some catching up with people who had not been around for a while, but also discuss the very busy summer ahead – see next news item! Below a pic of the Town House event.               The next event was our participation in the Twinning Zone of the Harbour Festival 2015 – a great day with...

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Hannover’s finest yarn bomber, Mansha, has been invited by the BHC to take part in this year’s Urban Paint Festival (UPFest) on 25 and 26 July. Mansha is based in Hannover but is originally from Berlin and is half Iranian. She is a DJ and has been a Music TV host. She still does a lot of urban art working with top German artists such as Loomit, Daim, Mode2, Darco, Can2 and Bomber. She became the first artist in Hannover to use yarn-bombing techniques in 2006 and has also developed her art further by using recycled materials such as wood, stone, cans and bottles. She has been commissioned to yarn-bomb...

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We again celebrated the pre-Lent Karneval on Rosenmontag, Monday February 16th, at the Bavarian Beerhouse, just off Queen Square in Bristol. We were honoured by the presence of the Lord Mayor, Councillor Alastair Watson and his wife Sarah, the Lady Mayoress. This year we were also delighted to welcome 16 business studies students and two staff from the Hannah-Arendt-Schule in Hannover, who had come to spend a week with their partner college, the South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (SGS), Filton. They had only arrived into Birmingham that day and had a fairly bad journey by coach on the M5 to Bristol...

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The artist who created the PENvolution installation, Kerstin Schulz, compiled a comprehensive and beautiful catalogue of all the installations to date as well as those still being planned in Hannover’s partner cities: Poznan, Bristol, Rouen, Hiroshima, Blantyre (Malawi) and Hannover. On her return to Bristol, Lynne Evans was able to present a copy of the catalogue to Mayor George Ferguson, who had been involved in early discussions on bringing the installation to Bristol when he visited Hannover in April 2014.

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Jana Kreimeier, student of English and Philosophy at Münster University, spent a term at Cotham School here in Bristol, from September to December 2014. She says the following of her stay: I spent nearly four months in Bristol where I served an internship as a foreign language assistant for German at Cotham School. My grandpa Wilhelm Knicker, member of the Hannover-Bristol-Gesellschaft, arranged for a contact with Ann Kennard, chair of Bristol Hannover Council, who supported me so kindly with the organisation of my stay. I enjoyed my time in Bristol a lot and am so thankful that it has been...

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From Frank Titmarsh, Bristol-Hannover Council Committee Following its 6 week stay at The Central Library in Bristol, the Pencil Mobile Room was opened to the public on Thursday 22nd January in the Städtische Galerie Kubus in Hannover, along with other ‘Analogue to Digital’ installations, from Hannover’s twin cities around the world. Lynne Evans and I went to Hannover to represent the committee at this unique event. The first event of the week was the press conference at Galerie Kubus where local press, magazines and local radio were invited to see the exhibition and introduced to the artists...

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Bristol Hannover Council has recently become aware of an exchange between South Gloucestershire and Stroud College and the Hannah Arendt Schule, Hannover. Hannah Arendt Schule students will visit Bristol from Monday 16th to Friday 20th February. They will join Bristol Hannover Council for the Rosenmontag party on the 16th, will have a reception with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House on the 19th, and will be visiting schools and businesses in Bristol and seeing the sights. The report below is of South Gloucestershire and Stroud College’s visit to Hannover in October 2014. From Paul...

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On Sunday December 7th, more than twenty members and friends of Bristol-Hannover Council enjoyed Wurst and Bratkartoffeln, washed down by a couple of mugs of Glühwein, at the Weihnachtsmarkt at the Podium in Broadmead, Bristol. The Weihnachtsmarkt, which is brought to us from Osnabrück (not far from Hannover), has gone from strength to strength in the few years it has been with us. After a difficult start several years ago on Castle Green, later in the City Centre, managers Harry and Tina have worked hard with the City Council so that it has become a popular place during the Christmas period...

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On Sunday November 16th, members of BHC visited Bath in order to celebrate two links with Hannover: firstly the exhibition being shown at the Fashion museum, entitled Georgians: Dress for Polite Society. This was a delightful display of court and other dress through the 18th and 19th centuries, when the Georges I-IV were on the throne. There was an interesting addendum also, of clothes from our modern age, such as a dress by Vivienne Westwood, which owe their style to the Georgian period. The group then moved to the exquisite Herschel Museum of Astronomy at 19 New King Street, where one can learn...

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